Wyniki wyszukiwania:

Sixteen-year-old Peter Shaw is a savant, a brilliant musician, and wants to be like every other kid his age. He finds solace in two things - music and his love for Amy Stevens. Amy's mother, Abigail, is against the union and forbids Amy from seeing Peter again. Their love is put to an unspeakable test when Amy's mother proves she will do anything to keep her and Peter apart.

A reintroduction to the fascinating story and unique poetic vision of Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie's body of work--four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928--has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie "used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences." This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of...

Mark Jacobs, a genius-level scientist and inventor and his sister, Kelly, a software designer, build a time machine by accident while working on a teleportation device. They decide to use the time machine to secure and preserve ancient treasures that have been lost to history. This first book in the series, The Portal, centers on the protagonists attempt to recover treasure never found from the 17th century Spanish ship, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha.

Demonstrates what popular opinion entertains, that 'the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.'

The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920s

The Benet name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize-winning poets and novelists during the first half of the twentieth century. Less well remembered are the remarkable women related to the Benet brothers, including Rosemary Carr, Stephen's wife; Laura, his sister; Elinor Wylie, William's second wife; and Kathleen Norris, the popular novelist who raised the children of her brother-in-law William.

Darling Ro and the Benet...

A sampling of Elinor Wylie's most representative work

In the 1920s Elinor Wylie's poetry and novels were critically acclaimed and enjoyed popularity in both the United States and England. Her poems were published in the New Yorker, the Century, the New Republic, and the Saturday Review of Literature, and she was described by contemporaries as an icon of the age. Much of the charm of Wylie's work is in her humor as well as in her understanding and mastery of so many poetic forms. Her magazine stories and articles from Vanity Fair,...